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What
was the star of Bethlehem? (Christians have also called it the Xmas star ever
since shortly after the U.S. Civil War when they adopted the pagan holiday the
Roman Catholic Church had “Christianized.”) When asked what the star was most
church-goers who have sat for years under the instruction of Bible-preaching
theologians with either “full time” or “full gospel” ministries would answer
something vague about planetary conjunctions, comets, or super novas. The remaining few would disinterestedly shrug and
say, “I don’t know.” Almost no one would answer with anything having to do with
the Bible.

If you were sitting on your porch at
night, or even during the day, and saw a comet or super nova would you
decide while looking at the object that:

1.It
was going to lead you on a journey to some indeterminate location so you could

2.Find
a newborn king no one else knows about, and

3.Worship
and present him with gifts, and

4.Try
to convince some friends not only that the object means all of that but also
that

5.They
should accompany you on this journey?

Of course you wouldn’t. But in their
Jeffersonian haste to replace the supernatural events in the Bible with natural
ones, Christians don’t think.

For
all of the above reasons it is extremely unlikely that the star was a bright
heavenly object.

The
answer, as usual, is not to be found in the flatulence of modern science, but
rather in God’s Authorized 1611 King James Bible: The star was an angel God
sent to give instructions to the wise men. Just as we refer to athletes and
actors as “stars”, the Bible refers to angels as stars. Read Re 1:20 and
then compare Re 12:4 with Re 12:9. For other examples read Nu
24:17; Job 38:7; Re 9:1,2; 22:16.